ECMP/multipath support

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Dec 22 18:44:54 CET 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > BTW, currently even if an opposite address is known, BIRD OSPF ptp links use
> > multicast for HELLO protocol which would not work on physically ptp links
> > that does not implement multicast. But AFAIK in such cases multicast
> > (and broadcast) is implemented on OS level (just it sends everything
> > to the other side).
> 
> Would that be AllSPFRouters? That is what you should use on ptp links(but not
> on ptmp links).

Yes, that is what we do, so it is OK.

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